Levy funds are used in several ways

The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board wants to continue to support programs in Sandusky County using local levy funds. One is the Prevention Partnership program to prevent and reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. The Sandusky County Prevention Partnership set goals to influence healthy community attitudes, such as conducting compliance checks at locations selling alcohol to ensure alcohol is not sold to minors and seller/server training to ensure minors are not given access to alcoholic drinks.

The board will dedicate levy funds to support the Sandusky County health assessments on a three-year cycle through Health Partners, a group of several agencies that collaborate to fund and study the assessment. Survey questions for the health assessments are developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Comparisons can be made from the cycles of completed assessments to indicate whether change has been made.

The Community Health Improvement Plan identified three priority areas from the most recent health assessment, which will be addressed over the next three years: Obesity and wellness; risky behavior among youth targeting prescription drug abuse and misuse; and mental health and wellness.

The Sandusky County Family and Children First Council provides service coordination to families with children, and the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board wants to help the council continue this vital service using Sandusky County levy funds. If a family has multiple needs and could benefit from the assistance of several agencies, Family and Children First can act as the agent that would gather system providers together in a meeting called a "wraparound." A wraparound allows everyone working with the family to know what each other is doing and who is responsible for what.

Nancy A. Cochran

Executive Director

The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board

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Levy funds are used in several ways

The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board wants to continue to support programs in Sandusky County using local levy funds. One is the Prevention Partnership program to prevent and reduce the use